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Sekbanbaşı, Koca

Time span:

1800-1850

Career:

Army

Diplomat

Short biography:

On his own account, Koca Sekbanbaşı (Çelebi Efendi) must have been born ca. 1718/9 (he claims to be eighty-seven years old when composing his treatise). He was participating in campaigns since 1733 and served continuously since 1768. In his career he had been held prisoner of the Russians (W. Wilkinson, An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, London 1820 (New York 1971), trans. as appendix, 239).